Muriel Spark Omnibus 2 (Fiction - General)

Here, in two handsome volumes, are ten celebrated novels by the author acclaimed as "the best English novelist writing today" (Times Literary Supplement) . Available singly and as a boxed set, The Novels of Muriel Spark is both a collector's item for Spark's loyal following and an ideal introduction for new readers. Volume 1 begins with Spark's best-selling The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) , whose Scottish schoolmistress remains one of the most memorable characters in modern fiction, and follows it with The Comforters, her first novel (1957) , The Only Problem (1984) , The Driver's Seat (1970) , and Memento Mori (1959) , a comic and macabre study of old age. Volume 2 continues with Loitering with Intent (1981) , a fascinating story of how art and life imitate each other; The Girls of Slender Means (1963) , whose resourceful young heroines of war-ravaged London are of Spark's own generation; The Abbess of Crewe (1973) , the tale of a Watergate-style power struggle ingeniously set in a conven